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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2005
Applicants:
Derek T. Walton, Bolton, MA (US);
Gyung Nam Boo, Lexington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Derek T. Walton, Bolton, MA (US);
Gyung Nam Boo, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Conexant Systems, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/60 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is provided a method for enhancing text reproduction by a color copier in a copy of a document that includes both text and graphic regions, the method includes creating an ink density map from a data image of the document identifying a region of the ink density map as a text region, a partial text region, a color region or a white region and modifying the data image for corresponding regions identified as text areas.